Gregory W. Wornell has been on the MIT faculty since 1991, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . He did his graduate work at MIT, and his undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia . In addition to leading the Signals, Information, and Algorithms Laboratory, he is also affiliated with the interlaboratory Center for Wireless Networking , which he co-directs. He also chairs Graduate Area I (Systems, Communication, Control, and Signal Processing) within the department's doctoral program.

Greg's work emphasizes fundamental and novel research that is strongly connected to important emerging applications and technologies. Over the years, he has held visiting appointments at the (former) AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, the University of California , Berkeley, CA, and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA. He has been involved in the Signal Processing and Information Theory societies of the IEEE in a variety of capacities, and maintains a number of close industrial relationships and activities. He has won a number of awards for both his research and teaching.

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Tricia O'Donnell has been at MIT since 2002 as an administrative assistant in the lab, working closely with Professor Wornell and the students, staff, and visitors. She handles office administration for the lab, Prof. Wornell's courses, and the EECS Department's Graduate Area I.

Outside of MIT, Tricia's passion is figure skating. She has passed her Senior Gold Freestyle Test, and competed at National Collegiates and New England Regionals. She has been a professional figure skating†instructor for 11 years, and coaches skaters at all levels, ages, and backgrounds. Her skaters have competed at the New England Regionals, Bay State Games, ISI Worlds, and many other events.

Just as with her experience in figure skating, Tricia enjoys being surrounded at MIT by individuals just as passionate about their endeavors, and the challenges and diversity that MIT has to offer.

In 2005, Tricia received an MIT Infinite Miles Award for her work at MIT.

Sae-Young Chung

sychung@mit.edu
Office: 36-687
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Anthony Accardi
accardi@mit.edu
Office: 36-683
Phone: 617.253.2121

Venkat Chandar

vchandar@mit.edu

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Phone: 617.253.0310

Venkat Chandar came to MIT in 2002 and is currently working on his doctoral degree. His undergraduate coursework focused on theoretical computer science and digital communication. His research interests include algorithms, information theory, coding theory, cryptography and digital communications. In general he enjoys pursuing research problems that both demand strong mathematical skills and have great potential applications. His masters degree research in the laboratory was on iterative quantization techniques for lossy source coding. In earlier work as an undergraduate, he studied image segmentation techniques for cardiac data in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.

Hi summer internships have incluced DE Shaw, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL).

Qing He

qinghe@mit.edu

Office: 36-667

Phone: 617.253.4987

Qing He entered the graduate program at MIT in 2009. She completed her bachelor's degree majoring in electrical and computer engineering, with minor in economics, at the University of Waterloo, where she worked on a variety of communication technologies.  At MIT, she is involved in underwater acoustic communication system design, and her broader research interests include information theory, coding theory and digital communications.

Qing has received a number of awards for academic achievement,
including the NSERC USRA, Qualcomm Scholarship, and Microsoft Merit Scholarship. She is currently a Presidential Graduate Fellow at MIT.

She has held internships at Research-in-Motion, Telecor Inc., and Advanced Digital Technology Ltd.

Ying-zong Huang
zong@mit.edu
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Phone: 617.253.0373

James Krieger

jameskrieger@mit.edu

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Maryam Modir Shanechi
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Charles Swannack
swannack@mit.edu
Office: 36-683
Phone: 617.253.2121

Charles Swannack came to MIT in 2003 after receiving his bachelors
degree in computer engineering from Clemson University, where he
focused on computational and discrete mathematics. He completed the masters degree in 2005, and is currently pursuing his doctorate.   His research in the laboratory has been exploring scheduling problems in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication systems.    His broader research interests include problems of digital communication, coding and information theory. As an undergraduate, he received a best
student paper award from the Society of Plastic Engineers. As a
graduate student, he holds an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

He has held summer internships at MITRE Corp.

Da Wang

dawang@mit.edu

Office: 36-673

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Da Wang joined the graduate program at MIT in 2008, after receiving his bachelors degree (with honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto.   His research interests lie in the area of communication and information theory.   As an undergraduate, he  pursued research in wireless networks and network coding, and won a number of awards for academic achievement.   He held a Jacobs Fellow at MIT, and is currently holds an Hewlett-Packard Fellowship at MIT.  He has held summer internships at  Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Altera Corp.

Dr. Uri Erez
uri@eng.tau.ac.il
Office: 36-687

Phone: 617.253.0565

Dr. Uri Erez completed his postdoctoral studies at MIT in 2005, where he worked on problems of coding and communication.  Before coming to MIT he was at Tel-Aviv University, where he completed undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics in 1996, and his masters and doctoral degrees in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is currently on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering - Systems department at Tel Aviv University.

Uri has served as a consultant for a number companies, among them Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, Tadiran-Systems and Ultracom. He received the Omicron Delta prize for his presentation at the 2000 Israel IEEE Convention. His research interests encompass information theory and digital communication.

Dr. Emin Martinian completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at, Berkeley in 1997. After a year and a half at the startup OPC Technologies, he joined the doctoral program at MIT in 1998, receiving the masters degree in 2000, and the doctoral degree in 2004. His masters research was in the area of multimedia authentication, and his doctoral thesis in the area of dynamic information and constraints in source and channel coding.   After completing his doctorate he led anindustrial research program at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.    He is now with Bain Capital, Boston, MA.

Emin served as a TA in 6.341. In addition, he co-founded 6.454, the department's advanced graduate seminar in communications, control, and signal processing, and has co-organized this seminar for three terms. In summer terms, he worked at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, Analog Devices, MERL, and has also served as a consultant to various start-ups. His broader research interests include digital communications and signal processing, especially information theory, error control codes, cryptography and image compression and authentication. While at MIT he held an NSF Graduate Fellowship, and received the Capocelli Award of the 2004 Data Compression Conference for the best student-authored paper. 

Dr. Chen-Pang Yeang

chenpang.yeang@utoronto.ca

Office: 36-687
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Si-Hyeon Lee

sihyeon@mit.edu
Office: 36-667
Phone: 617.253.4987